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May 23, 2016

New York: 21 Arrested Blocking Pipeline in Peekskill
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Meanwhile, activists in Peekskill, New York, have staged the latest act
of civil disobedience against the fossil fuel industry, which is the
leading cause of climate change. Twenty-one people were arrested after
forming a human chain to block construction of a pipeline that would
carry high-pressure methane gas through residential communities near the
Indian Point nuclear plant. Benjamin Shepard spoke shortly before he was
arrested.

Benjamin Shepard: "We're here to ask: If all of our elected
representatives are on record as being against this pipeline, if the
mayor of Peekskill is on record as being against the pipeline, if the
people of Peekskill are on record as being against this pipeline, who's
calling the shots? The people or the corporations? And if the
corporations won't get out of the way, the people have to do it, are
going to have to get in their way. And that's why we're here, to stop
the machinery."

Topics:Pipeline Climate Change Global Warming

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